Tag: ssid

Setting up a Cisco AP using the command line

by Samuel Mitchell, posted in Cisco, Network Virtualization, Uncategorized, Wireless

This article is to document the CLI commands used to configure an Autonomous Cisco Access Point.

To configure the AP management IP address use the following command:

Interface BVI1

ip address [ip] [subnetmask]

no shutdown

Next, define the SSID properties including Name, Key method and password.

This particular configuration is using WPA2 to authenticate the users.

dot11 ssid [SSIDName]

authentication open
authentication key-management wpa version 2
guest-mode
wpa-psk ascii [password]

Next you will push this SSID on the 2.4 Ghz which is on interface dot1Radio 0 and if you want it to be available on 5 Ghz band as well, you will configure it on dot1Radio 1. The radio will be using the AES-CCM encryption mode.

interface dot1radio0

encryption mode ciphers aes-ccm

ssid [SSID-name]

no shutdown

Once you are done, you can save the configuration and test you wireless device.

Manipulating Windows Network Adapter using Network Shell

by Samuel Mitchell, posted in Microsoft, Routing & Switching, windows, Windows server, Wireless

This adventure of configuring the network adapter started when I required admin rights to modify the settings because UAC (User Access Control) was disabled which prevented the prompting of admin privilege. The challenge was that I did not want to log off or switch user account hence I had to resort to using elevated privilege for the command prompt and utilize the network shell.

To get a list of the names of network adapter, the following command was used:

netsh interface show interface

To get the IP address assigned to the network adapter:

netsh interface ipv4 show addresses

To enable/disable the network adapter:

netsh interface set interface name=”NameOfInterface” admin=[ENABLED/DISABLED]

To set dynamic IP address assignment for network adapter:

netsh interface ipv4 set address source=dhcp

To set static IP address for network adapter:

netsh interface ipv4 set address static 10.0.0.9 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.1

To set DNS IP address for network adapter:

netsh interface ipv4 set dnsservers source=dhcp

Or

netsh interface ipv4 set dnsservers static 10.0.0.10 primary

For WLAN network adapter:

netsh wlan show interfaces

Show the Wireless networks broadcasting:

netsh wlan show networks

Show the WLAN profiles on computer:

netsh wlan show profiles

Connect to one of the WLAN profile configured on computer:

netsh wlan connect name=[ProfileName]

Disconnect from the currently connected WLAN SSID

network wlan disconnect name=[InterfaceName]

For more commands and help on this topic, you can visit the Microsoft documentation site here.